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California proposal would reinstate prisoners’ voting rights

FILE - An inmate at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility is taken through the voter registration process in Rutland, Vt., Oct. 2, 2008. California could reinstate voting rights to felons while they are in prison in a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if a bill currently before the state legislature passes despite an uphill battle. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

FILE - An inmate walks around the exercise yard at San Quentin State Prison on April 12, 2022, in San Quentin, Calif. California could reinstate voting rights to felons while they are in prison in a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if a bill currently before the state legislature passes despite an uphill battle. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg,File)

FILE - Barbed wire and a guard tower is seen at San Quentin State Prison on April 12, 2022, in San Quentin, Calif. California could reinstate voting rights to felons while they are in prison in a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if a bill currently before the state legislature passes despite an uphill battle. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg,File)

California proposal would reinstate prisoners’ voting rights